Night Falls Fast was composed for the contemporary dance work of the same name by John Utans. The original performance was with the Milwaukee Ballet at the Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, U.S.A. in February 2005. It's been used in many other places, I won't list them all, a play in Philadelphia, an advert for Panasonic... blah. It's expanded over the years to what you can hear now.

Here's the back story. John Utans had intended to use a piece by John Adams. He was unable to get permission to use it in the U.S. So Friday he called me with a brief to do something vaguely John Adams-like that could be ready by Tuesday when he was flying to Milwaukee. So I made (the first parts of) this, American orchestral minimalism 101. No rough edges, nothing too challenging.

I ended up being very invested in this and it became mine rather than something I'd been briefed to do. This work lacks a conventional heart but does have a very powerful brain.


This audio is part of the collection: At Sea
It also belongs to collection: Netlabels

Artist/Composer: Alan Morse Davies
Date: 2010
Keywords: minimal; orchestral; classical; contemporary; ballet; dance; Alan Morse Davies

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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